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FOOTBALL

Big game cashes in big bucks as popularity of gambling rises

Steve Highfield
January 31, 2006

This year's Super Bowl in Detroit is Super Bowl XL, and if you plan on attending the game, your wallet better be XL, too. That's because the price of a ticket to attend the 60-minute football game can run into the thousands of dollars. The NFL offers a 1,000-ticket drawing to the public, and the winners get the opportunity to purchase a ticket for the Feb.

SPORTS

Rivalry will never get old

Detroit — Over the past two weeks, I've gained a new appreciation for MSU's rivalry with Michigan. This baby is intense. In general, I am a fan of all teams in any sport I watch.

SPORTS

Rivalry getting a bit too much

I left Munn Ice Arena on Friday night frustrated. Then I got back to my apartment and watched the replay of the Spartans and Wolverines' 1-1 tie and grew even angrier. Let's examine the game: • I wrote in junior defenseman Ethan Graham as the No.

SPORTS

Catching up with

Get the lowdown on how the next men's hoops class that will come to MSU fared recently. Isaiah Dahlman Shooting guard/small forward 6 foot 6, 175 pounds Braham Area High School (Braham, Minn.) Dahlman scored 27 points as the Bombers dismantled Onamia, 71-43, Tuesday, the Isanti County News reported.

SPORTS

Monday Musings

Tom Keller
January 30, 2006

Officials at Texas A&M are upset with the Seattle Seahawks' use of the "12th Man" theme to recognize their fan support.

SPORTS

2nd-half heroics

Flash back to halftime of MSU's game against Penn State on Saturday, and you'll see head coach Tom Izzo in the locker room, contemplating a list of problems longer than Idong Ibok's wingspan. Paul Davis was planted firmly on the bench, cuckoo birds still circling his head after he lost a fight with Ibok's elbow at practice the day before. Maurice Ager was planted firmly in a slump, firing up 3-pointers with the accuracy of a drunk skeet shooter. And the No.

ICE HOCKEY

All knotted up

Eric Fish
January 30, 2006

You could sense the postgame frustration from the MSU hockey team following Friday's 1-1 tie against Michigan at Munn Ice Arena. "At home, you're disappointed with a tie — bottom line," MSU head coach Rick Comley said. But at times it could be argued that the No.

SPORTS

Goodbye Ron Artest I'll miss you

I love Ron Artest, and I'm going to miss him. I guess I should qualify that statement. Given that I reside within a fan base that eats, sleeps and breathes the Detroit Pistons, professing my adoration for a player infamous for A) firmly entrenching his elbow in Richard Hamilton's face and B) inciting the biggest brawl in the history of professional sports, people are bound to think I'm just as crazy as Ron-Ron.

SPORTS

Did you see that?

The men's basketball student section, the Izzone, got creative during the game, as the members were supplied with dry-erase boards.

SPORTS

From the road

Women's basketball reporter Ethan Conley writes about his brief trip to West Lafayette, Ind., where MSU lost.

SPORTS

Front and center

Eric Fish
January 27, 2006

The State News recently caught up with MSU senior hockey forward Colton Fretter, a Harrow, Ontario, native. • On his favorite sport other than hockey … "Badminton.

SPORTS

From the road

Men's hoops reporter Tom Keller writes about his overnight trip to Ann Arbor. With no class Wednesday, I trekked over to Ann Arbor a day before the MSU-Michigan game and spent the night at a friend's place.

ICE HOCKEY

Icers, U-M: rounds 3, 4

Eric Fish
January 27, 2006

Both their CCHA and overall records are almost identical. Three of the past four games against each other have ended in draws. Eight of their past nine meetings have been decided by a goal or less. That's just a slight indication of how evenly matched the Wolverines and Spartans are on the ice.